Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...patriotic citizen of Andover recently contributed a large woodpile with which to build a bonfire, thus saving a large number of fences and other wood work from certain destruction...
...This will be a great convenience both for the sellers and buyers and should have the assistance of all members it is desirable also that the text-book department should be enlarged. Efforts have been made as far as possible to obtain for the society the exclusive sale of certain text-books. Of course the success of this plan depends largely on the willingness of the instructors to give exclusive information. As it is an important object for the students to get their books as cheaply as possible, it is hoped that instructors will aid the plan as much...
...with pleasure we announce that in a few days a report showing the result of the investigations made by the Committee of the Faculty on Athletics, is to be published and distributed. The report is certain to contain valuable information on a subject that has never been carefully and fully investigated before-the real position of athletics in college life. Exaggerated ideas of the great amount of time spent by athletes in training, and of the consequent loss of time that ought to have been devoted to college work proper, etc.- will be confirmed or disproved by the result...
...ball fields whenever they appear. This, it seems to us, is the only effective way with which to impress outsiders with the fact that the college grounds are for college men and not for outsiders. If some of the 'varsity crew nine were to take the initiative, we are certain that they will find many men ready to aid them in the undertaking. We are informed officially that such a body of men would have full powers of officers of the officers of the law, but in the college grounds. The task will demand some self-sacrifice...
...past years, certain clerks in the stores about the college (a few only, however.) have made a regular business of speculating in Class Day tickets. They obtain the tickets in divers ways, and offer them publicly for sale. In this way numbers of thoroughly objectionable people get into the yard, and it was mainly to curtail one of the sources of supply of these clerks that the word "tradesmen" was used...